From: tednolan@bellsouth.net
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Wow, just hit RCS bug
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 16:41:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <694832.7961.bm@smtp113.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> (raw)
I just hit the worst Cygwin bug I've encountered, the RCS bug which
silently corrupts text files > 256K. That's the last thing I expect
from a version control system!
After some moments of panic, I was able to retrieve a good copy from
backups, but have lost my revision history.
Anyway, I immediately did a list search and found this is a known bug.
Shouldn't this package be pulled?
Just for the record, the suggested env var fix
RCS_MEM_LIMIT=0
to "force stdio" does not work for me, but the
RCS_MEM_LIMIT=10240
to allow 10megs of diffs does..
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-16 16:41 tednolan [this message]
2014-04-16 17:20 ` Achim Gratz
2014-04-16 17:38 ` tednolan
2014-04-16 22:20 ` Keith Christian
2014-04-16 22:25 ` tednolan
2014-04-17 1:04 ` Wow, just hit RCS bug (attn: Dr Volker Zell) Warren Young
2014-04-17 8:21 ` Achim Gratz
2014-04-17 14:01 ` Achim Gratz
2014-04-18 9:14 ` peter.wagemans
2014-04-18 12:07 ` peter.wagemans
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